Household screening and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

The Lancet

Volumn 377, Issue 9760, 2011, Pages 103-104

  Cox, Helen ^a,b   Van Cutsem, Gilles ^b  

^a BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b Médecins Sans Frontires   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SPUTUM CULTURE; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 79151479323     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61390-6     Document Type: Note

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